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Leon Trotzky has written another book- Whither England? He repudiates any wish to spread revolutionary propaganda: "To accuse me of such a desire . . . would be equivalent to accusing an astronomer of bringing about an eclipse because he has predicted its occurrence...
Bishop Adam had left his secretary, the Rev. Michael Chervinsky, pretty little Mrs. Chervinsky and Oleg to hold the episcopal fort against all comers. The Rev. and Mrs. Chervinsky were upstairs whither the lawyers, joined by special police, quickly followed. Battering through more oak, they found the Rev. Secretary and his wife. "I'm sick," said Mrs. Chervinsky from the bed, "go away." "We'll get an ambulance," said a detective. Instantly she threw back the bedcovers, jumped forth full-clad...
...Oneida, now unloading at Bordeaux to bring back a commercial cargo; the Onondaga, in the Caribbean returning with 1,600,000 ft. of lumber from Seattle whither she took Fords; the East Indian being reconditioned at Chester, Pa; the Henry Ford II and Benson Ford (named after a young son of Edsel) in the neighborhood of the Sao Canal, one carrying Ford products, the other returning with a commercial cargo. All carry the "Bluebird" ensign chose by Mr. Ford himself; cf. Maeterlinck...
...diaries were brought up to date, magazines were fished out, idle moments were devoted to picturing in advance the wonders of Seattle, where all were going; the excitement of the 47th Annual Convention of the American Library Asociation, which all would attend; the further grandeurs and marvels of Alaska, whither 250 of the more adventurous librarians would journey after the convention...
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, N. Y.) listened, at her 60th exercises, to President Henry Noble MacCracken on Leisure: "Whither has it gone? Can we find it again? . . . The word is, of course, Latin and means 'it is permitted.' It implies a positive, constructive, creative life...